The Ambassadors of Death: The Sister Arts, Western Canon and the Silent Lines of a Hebrew Survivor

by Shahar Bram

Tuvia Rubner, winner of Israel Prize for Poetry (2008), is a Hebrew poet who lost his family in the Holocaust. He turned his personal trauma into a broad world view that engages with Western culture, his poetry highlighting correspondences with paintings by Chagall, Breughel, Holbein, Turner and Rembrandt. Death and loss are molding experiences in this poet's world. Paint and sculpture masterpieces are signalled as masks, as Ambassadors of Death...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845194500
• ISBN13: 9781845194505
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 8.8"